United against an anti-immigrant ballot measure

Fear is not a healthy environment—and hate is not an environmental solution.

An anti-immigrant group in Oregon was able to gather enough signatures to qualify Measure 105 for Oregon’s November ballot last week. The group has been preying on fears of water scarcity, pollution and global warming to promote anti-immigrant actions like this one.

Measure 105 would overturn Oregon’s sanctuary law that has worked for 30 years. It would divert police and taxpayer dollars for the police away from community safety, including environmental safety. It would direct police to stop and detain Oregonians, even without suspicion of a crime, if someone thinks they might be an undocumented immigrant.

From the beginning, Oregon Environmental Council has fostered healthy environments for healthy communities. We cannot have one without the other. We are proud to stand with One Oregon and Oregonians United Against Profiling to defeat Measure 105.

You can join us: • Share this Facebook post on your personal profile to show your support and tell your friends that you’ll be voting NO on Measure 105. • Follow Oregonians United Against Profiling on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. • Join us for a Day of Action on Saturday, July 28 at events throughout Oregon to send a strong, unified message that Oregonians believe in fairness and looking out for our neighbors.

Oregon Environmental Council staff and board are feeling both grateful and energized to see how Oregonians voted on critical ballot measures in the 2018 midterm election. With 69.06% of eligible voters turning out across the state, Oregonians stood by healthy and

At Oregon Environmental Council, we believe civic engagement is important. Just as important as supporting healthy communities for Oregon’s future. That’s why we’re taking a stand on these important ballot measures for the 2018 election.
Don’t forget to vote on NOVEMBER 6,

OEC and our supporters tracked a number of ballot measures in the spring and summer of 2016. Here are the original descriptions, each with an update as of July 2016: In May:
Fix Our Streets Portland Fix Our Streets Portland will raise much-needed revenue to fund transportation improvements that boost people’s ability to walk, bike or take tr

The public transportation system serving Salem-Keizer residents has a great name – “Cherriots” – conjuring up images of beautiful horse-drawn carriages, but Cherriots has been struggling for years to meet the community’s needs. In fact, if you want to take the bus on the weekend or after 9:00 PM, tough luck!
Part of the problem is the fact that Oregon lags far behind other states in supporting the daily operations of its local transit systems. From Basin Transit Service in Klamath Fall

Wearing green, OEC staff and emerging leaders, showed that our community—and our environmental values—are aligned in solidarity with immigrants’ rights.
On Saturday, Jan. 14, we joined with hundreds from throughout Oregon in demonstrating our commitment to dignity and working for solutions based on hope.
The rally, part of a national day of demonstrations, was comprised of dozens of state-wide organizations in the One Oregon coalition, of which OEC is a memb

What works best for you to create change: uniting people, or dividing them? OEC was founded on the premise that, if we bring people together, we can use the best of our collective ingenuity to protect what we love.
Today, we find it’s not enough to unite people: we must also actively reject efforts to divide Oregonians. As an anti-immigrant movement gains ground in Oregon, it is critical for OEC to assert that we are not simply silent on the issue: we are pro-immigrant e

Guest Post by Steve Siegel
It is a hot summer day and you are off to your favorite swimming hole, joyfully anticipating your first leap into its crystal clear, refreshing water, followed by the magnificent shake of your body as you surface, spraying water in every direction. You can hardly wait, recklessly racing your dog to the water. You arrive to find a pool of brownish, greenish, stagnant water, barely knee deep. Skidding to a halt, you no longer want to even dip your